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Office buildings I've worked at in the past barely had any filtration. Within a few days, the untouched parts of your desk would have a layer of dust on it. I'
by chiph 7y ago
Office buildings I've worked at in the past barely had any filtration. Within a few days, the untouched parts of your desk would have a layer of dust on it. I'm now (well, not now-now since everyone is WFH) in a LEED Gold building and the filtration is much better, and I only have to clean the monitors every 5 or 6 weeks.
As good as it is, it still won't catch virus sized particles - that's a biosafety level 3 or 4 facility (like in Andromeda Strain) and you're not going to find that in an commercial building.
- JshWright 7y agoCoronavirus requires droplets to spread. Those droplets can be very small, and carry a ways through the air (which is what this article is proposing, not that the virus was carried through the ducting), but they are orders of magnitude bigger than the virus itself, and would absolutely be caught by a typical filter. There are viruses that can spread that way. Measles, for instance, is known for doing that. Coronavirus can't (as far as anyone knows, and we know quite a lot about that).
- Zenst 7y ago>that's a biosafety level 3 or 4 facility As dramatic as that sounds, you can get commercial and home aircons that will filter at the level to kill or remove viruses. Though for COVID-19 you would want something that can filter at 0.125 micron as that is the size of this virus.